The New York State Senate today passed a bill that creates the crime of aggravated harassment of a police or peace officer. The bill (S.2402), sponsored by Senator Joe Griffo (R-C-I, Rome) would make it a felony to harass, annoy, or threaten a police officer while on duty.

Our system of laws is established to protect the foundations of our society, Senator Griffo said. Police officers who risk their lives every day in our cities and on our highways deserve every possible protection, and those who treat them with disrespect, harass them and create situations that can lead to injuries deserve to pay a price for their actions.

The bill establishes this crime as a Class E Felony, punishable by up to four years in prison.

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim  when he defends himself  as a criminal. - The Law; Frederic Bastiat

S 240.33 AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER WHEN, WITH THE INTENT TO HARASS, ANNOY, THREATEN OR ALARM A PERSON WHOM HE OR SHE KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW TO BE A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER ENGAGED IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMING HIS OR HER OFFICIAL DUTIES, HE OR SHE STRIKES, SHOVES, KICKS OR OTHERWISE SUBJECTS SUCH PERSON TO PHYSICAL CONTACT.

AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER IS A CLASS E FELONY.

I second that. Cops have become the tools of the State. They will follow orders to the end. Just like the good Kapos in the Concentration camps or the Polizie in German cities. Now they have access to us like no time before. We are screwed people and the cops are going to take advantage of it. Not all cops are but, but the bad ones make the good ones all part of the same team.

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posted on 06/06/2013 6:11:56 PM PDT
by crazydad
(Obamamohamed is a traitor)

This is the equivalent of hanging a bull’s eye on the backs of all NYS cops. It is a way to drive a wedge between the population and police and turn this into an “us” vs. “them” conflict. The cops will be give the choice of becoming jack booted thugs or siding with the population. Guess the side “good union folks” will favor? Bingo! The corrupt politicians and state.

Ah yes, but the cops will still be able to harass conservatives! Like in Milwaukee the libs can block the streets to traffic but supporters of our Republican Governor could not hold signs on a pedestrian bridge. The libs and the unions of course could HANG signs on the same bridges before the recall election.

Nice to see things don’t change....

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posted on 06/06/2013 6:54:34 PM PDT
by logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the alter of "gun free zones"?)

Our system of laws is established to protect the foundations of our society, Senator Griffo said. Police officers who risk their lives every day in our cities and on our highways deserve every possible protection, and those who treat them with disrespect, harass them and deserve to pay a price for their actions.

Does this clown Griffo have an IQ of record? He sounds like a complete retard, albeit a monumentally arrogant one. He obviously didn't have the time or the smarts to check national crime statistics. But that's fundamentally irrelevant. More on that later.

The two sentences above are a non sequitur. Being a nation of laws does not neutralize the rights and protections of the Constitution. Or the natural law of self protection. Police agencies are created by the citizens to protect and serve; not to rule. The last state of affairs we need to create is the ability for criminals to determine what constitutes 'disrespect or harassment.' Yes, LEOs can behave like or actually be criminals. A dead citizen has no defense even if he is dead right. Stories of LEOs who abuse their power, cite non-existing laws to intimidate citizens are legion now. I can imagine how much worse it will get.

We can agree only on "creating situations that can lead to injuries. But, like "national security," we can't allow criminals to define the term any way they choose.

The number of innocent civilians killed or injured annually as victims of crime exceeds the number of LEOs killed or injured. Yet, this MENSA graduate wants to disarm the ordinary citizen. The Law enforcement folks have guns. When seconds count and the police is just minutes away won't cut it! I predict an immediate legal challenge and another loss for the wannabe banana republic types.

Bingo, we have a winner. Got to stop the video taping of the police. The police can make up any excuse (after they seize your camera) and then it’s their word against yours .... and you know that their word is worth more within the system.

I think that you have spotted the same tendency that I have over the last several years. Every misdemeanor is now being elevated to felony status. Possession of a single bullet is a felony, possession of a rifle magazine (even without the rifle) is a felony, etc. All of these felonies then involve revocation of you voting rights and more importantly your rights to own weapons.

Just last week I annoyed a cop by telling him that he was being absurd for giving me a ticket for not wearing a seat belt.

There should be a Master's Thesis on the evolution of tyranny in this country.

Just read the major newspapers between 1955 and 1965, when installation of seat belts was made mandatory for the manufacturers, but wearing them would NEVER be mandatory.

The persuasion was based entirely on the survival instincts of the average person, in having the option of wearing them. If the heavy boot of the wannabe tyrants had suggested otherwise, the bill would have never passéd. Now, it's just another "revenue enhancement."

The persuasion was based entirely on the survival instincts of the average person, in having the option of wearing them. If the heavy boot of the wannabe tyrants had suggested otherwise, the bill would have never passéd.

Remember the friendly, catchy little "Buckle Up For Safety!" jingle?

Now, the commercial is the gravel-voiced JackBoot: "KlickItErTicket!!!"

We've come a long way, baby - on the road to tyranny, as you said, publius.

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posted on 06/06/2013 8:14:53 PM PDT
by kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))

Cops have become the tools of the State. They will follow orders to the end. Just like the good Kapos in the Concentration camps or the Polizie in German cities.

Amazing how the Founders got along for DECADES without any cops...

Now, we have an occupying army who solved the problem of the Third Amendment by forcing the peasants to pay them $50 an hour so they could buy some swell digs, instead of having to move in to the substandard housing of the peasant scum.

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posted on 06/06/2013 8:22:43 PM PDT
by kiryandil
(turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))

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